Light Beams, Activate
An interruption of our regular broadcast
Dear Clown Class,
In lieu of a normal Wednesday post, I’m bringing our attention to one real-life struggle playing out at maximum right now in a hospital in Oregon. This is what’s on my mind.
I’ve got a friend, a wonderful person named Meg. Six members of her family were in a terrible car accident several days ago: her parents, her twin sister, her brother-in-law, and their two children.
All survived but the situation is dire.
I’m going to ask you to take as much time as you’re willing to give and hold this group of people in your consciousness however you do when things are grim for you and yours. Picturing a big healing light, directing prayer to any deities of choice, active secular willing of the best outcome: whatever you do when it gets bad close to home, I’m asking you to do for these strangers.
Let me give you some names:
Larry + Judy Wood (Meg’s parents)
Marni Wood Piedrahita (Meg’s twin sister)
Ed Piedrahita (Marni’s husband and the person towards whom we’re going to beam our most intense efforts)
Sydney + Luke Piedrahita (Marni + Ed’s kids)
Now let me give you some faces:
Ed is in a coma and his life is the one that’s hanging in the balance. Nobody got out of that accident in great shape, though, at all, and the road to healing is going to be long and tough.
Light a candle if you have one, say some words to whomever you say these kinds of words to. Put some feeling into it. If you do magic, do some of that. If you’re up for some experimental magical thinking where you’re the Decider of the Universe and you get to grant this family their dearest wish—that they can be together and smiling for many more years in all their intact and healthy bodies—then please go for it.
And maybe you like to do more concrete things like move cash money around. I’m going to link to the family’s GoFundMe. Nobody will be able to work for a long time and it’s going to be an expensive journey.
The GoFundMe:
Help for the Piedrahita Family
Check it out, read about what happened, kick in if you can.
Meg, my friend, she’s the most intensely loyal and loving person you could meet. She’s on the scene at maximum intensity every day, running from hospital room to hospital room with her heart in her throat. Her family is everything to her. I know she’d be pulling on every resource she has to show up for even one of these people.
Instead: Six. The six dearest. It’s too much.
Could we make a giant beam of light here, collectively? Can we kick in? What if we go so hard that the situation just…VOOM. Improves.
It’s worth a shot. Let’s go, Clown Class.
Thank you.
P.S. I’ll be back this Friday with the next installment of the advice column.
Done.
Working on this with intense focus and love